What were Jesus' last words to Peter?
"Feed my lambs", "Tend my sheep", and "Feed my sheep". (John 21)
The responsibility is the leadership's. Nowhere are the sheep ever commanded to care for the shepherd.
Ephesians 4:11-14 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.
And to whom much is given, much will be required. And if they haven't done that, they have abdicated their responsibility and are accountable for themselves and the souls they led astray.
“It’s the SHEPHERD’s job to care for the sheep. It’s not up to the sheep to care for themselves or the shepherd. They are not capable of it. That’s why God gave them a shepherd.”
As you so often do - at least twice now in this thread alone - you imply someone said something that no one here has said. You wrote: “It’s not up to the sheep to care for themselves or the shepherd.” No one here said it was their job to “care for...the shepherd”. Nobody said that.
Read Galatians 1:6-10. Clearly Paul expects the Christian faithful to take responsibility and do what is right even if an “angel from heaven” told them otherwise. No mention is made of a shepherd there.
Exactly.